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Argh!		Argh! A minimalist argument handler.
argparse		Argument Parser for Modern C++.
args		A simple header-only C++ argument parser library.
cmd_line_parser		Command line parser for C++17.
CLI11		CLI11 is a command line parser for C++11 and beyond.
clipp		Powerful & Expressive Argument Parsing for Modern C++.
cxxopts		Lightweight C++ GNU style option parser library.
fire-hpp		Create fully functional CLIs using function signatures.
flags		Simple, extensible, header-only C++17 argument parser.
structopt		Parse command line arguments by defining a struct.

Library	Stars	Description	License
miniaudio		Audio playback and capture library written in C, in a single source file.
minimp3		Minimalistic MP3 decoder single header library.

Library	Stars	Description	License
criterion		Microbenchmarking for Modern C++.
nanobench		Simple, fast, accurate microbenchmarking for C++11.
picobench		A small microbenchmarking library for C++11.

Library	Stars	Description	License
comms		Implement binary communication protocols in >=C++11.

Library	Stars	Description	License
Gzip		Gzip header-only C++ library.
interpolative_coding		Binary Interpolative Coding algorithm.
zstr		A C++ header-only ZLib wrapper.

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cs_libguarded		Multithreaded programming.
taskflow		Modern C++ Parallel Task Programming.
task_system		Better Code: Concurrency - Sean Parent.
transwarp		A header-only C++ library for task concurrency.
taskpool		Modern C++ taskpool.
thread-pool		Modern C++20 thread-pool.

Library	Stars	Description	License
cppcodec		Encode/decode base64, base64url, base32, etc.
digestpp		C++11 header-only message digest library.
PicoSHA2		Header-file-only, SHA256 hash generator in C++.
plusaes		Header only C++ AES cipher library.
stduuid		A C++17 cross-platform implementation for UUIDs.

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OTL		Oracle, ODBC and DB2-CLI Template Library.	OpenBSD

Library	Stars	Description	License
bencode		C++20 bencode library.
Boost.JSON		JSON parsing, serialization, inspection and modification.
cpptoml		Header-only library for parsing TOML.
csv2		Fast CSV parser and writer for Modern C++.
CSV Parser		Reading, writing, and analyzing CSV files.
daw_json_link		Static JSON parsing in C++.
Fast C++ CSV Parser		Fast library for reading CSV files.
FlatJSON		Extremely fast just one allocation and zero copy JSON parser.
Glaze		Extremely fast, in memory, JSON and interface library for modern C++.
inih		This is a header only C++ version of inih.
nlohmann/json		JSON for Modern C++.
json_struct		High performance, single header only to serialize and deserialize JSON to C++ structs.
jsoncons		Construct JSON and JSON-like data formats.
minicsv		Bare minimal CSV stream based on C++ file streams.
picojson		a header-file-only, JSON parser serializer in C++.
pugixml		A C++ XML processing library with a DOM-like interface and XPath 1.0 support.
rapidcsv		C++ CSV parser library.
rapidjson		A fast JSON parser/generator for C++.
rapidxml		RapidXML fork; XML namespacing, per-element parsing, etc.
simdjson		Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second.
simpleini		Read and write INI-style configuration files.
taocpp JSON		C++ header-only JSON library.
toml11		TOML for Modern C++.
tomlplusplus		TOML config file parser and serializer for >=C++17.
tortellini		A really stupid INI file format for C++11.
valijson		JSON Schema validation.
xml2json		A header-only C++ library converts XML to JSON.

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dlib		A toolkit for real-world machine learning and data analysis.
frugally deep		Use Keras models in C++.
gaenari		Incremental decision tree in C++17.
hnswlib		Fast approximate nearest neighbors.
MiniDNN		A header-only C++ library for deep neural networks.
mlpack		mlpack: a fast, header-only C++ machine learning library.
nanoflann		Nearest Neighbor (NN) search with KD-trees.
tiny-dnn		Dependency-free deep learning framework in C++14.

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asap		Creating, displaying, iterating and manipulating dates.
cxx prettyprint		Pretty-printing of any container in C++(0x).
emio		A safe and fast high-level and low-level character input/output C++20 library.
fmt		A modern formatting library.
pprint		Pretty Printer for Modern C++.
strf		A fast formatting library for C++14.
tabulate		Table Maker for Modern C++.

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boolinq		Simplest C++ header-only LINQ template library.

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BitMagic		Compressed bit-vectors, logical operations, memory compact containers.
concurrent queue		Fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue.
dynamic bitset		The C++17 header-only dynamic bitset.
frozen		Constexpr alternative to gperf for C++14 users.
hopscotch map		Fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing.
immer		Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures.
MPMCQueue		A bounded multi-producer multi-consumer concurrent queue.
outcome		Lightweight outcome and result.
parallel hashmap		Very fast and memory-friendly hashmap and btree containers.
PGM-index		Blazing fast queries and updates over billions of items using orders of magnitude less memory than other containers.
robin-hood hashing		Fast & memory efficient hashtable based on robin hood hashing.
robin-map		Fast hash map and hash set using robin hood hashing.
sfl-library		Small vector. Small flat map/multimap/set/multiset (ordered and unordered). C++11.
small		Implementations of the main STL containers optimized for the case when they are small.
tries		Fast and highly customisable C++20 trie implementation.

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backward-cpp		A beautiful stack trace pretty printer for C++.

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ceras		A deep learning engine in C++20.

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inversify-cpp		C++17 inversion of control and dependency injection container library.

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eventbus		Mediator pattern event bus for C++.
eventpp		Event Dispatcher and callback list for C++.
periodic-function		Callbacks at a specified time interval.

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simplebinstream		C++ Simplistic Binary Stream.
filesystem		Cross-platform implementation of std::filesystem for C++11/14/17.
glob		Glob for C++17.
llfio		P1031 low-Level file i/o and filesystem library.
mio		Cross-platform C++11 memory mapped file IO.
mm_file		Memory-mapped files for C++.
tinydir		Lightweight, portable C directory and file reader.

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FunctionalPlus		Functional Programming Library for C++.
immer		Persistent functional data structures in C++.
lager		Redux-like unidirectional data-flow for C++.
schmutz		Easy Guile Scheme C++ bindings.
zug		Transducers (from Clojure) in C++.

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arcball_camera		Immediate-mode camera for your graphics demos.
Brutus		Marching cubes implementation.
cinolib		Process polygonal and polyhedral meshes.
cr		A Simple C Hot Reload Header-only Library.
CxxSwizzle		Modern C++ swizzling header-only library.
earcut.hpp		Fast Polygon triangulation.
entt		Entity component system (ECS) and much more.
glm		OpenGL Mathematics (GLM).
librg		🚀 Making multi-player gamedev simpler since 2017.
micro-gl		👾 CPU Vector Graphics Engine (No FPU or std-lib needed).
nanort		Modern ray tracing kernel.
px		Thread Scheduling, Rendering, and so on.
Simple OpenGL Loader		Extensible, cross-platform OpenGL loader.
Sokol		Cross-platform libraries for C and C++.
stb		Single-file public domain libraries.
Swarmz		Swarming (flocking) library for real-time applications.
tiny-differentiable-simulator		Tiny Differentiable Simulator is a header-only C++ physics library with zero dependencies.
tinygltf		C++11 tiny glTF 2.0 library.
tweeny		A modern C++ tweening library.
Vookoo		Take the pain out of Vulkan.
voxelizer		Header only mesh voxelizer in c99.

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thrust		Parallel programming library.
vuda		Vulkan-based library that provides a CUDA Runtime API interface for writing GPU-accelerated applications.
muda		Elegant kernel launch, debug-friendly memory accessor, automatic CudaGraph generation & updating for CUDA.

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CXXGraph		Graph Representation and Algorithms Library >= C++17
Graaf		A general-purpose lightweight C++20 graph library.

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Centurion		A modern C++17/20 wrapper library for SDL2.
GuiLite		The smallest header-only GUI library(5 KLOC) for all platforms.
Nuklear		Immediate mode cross-platform GUI library.
WinLamb		C++11 native Win32 GUI library.

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MPL		A C++11 message passing library based on the Message Passing Interface standard.

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cinatra		Modern (c++17), Cross-platform Http Framework.
cpp-httplib		A C++11 Cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library.
jwt-cpp		Create and validate JSON web tokens.
RESTinio		Asynchronous HTTP/WebSocket server C++14 library
cuehttp		Modern c++ middleware framework for http(http/https)/websocket(ws/wss).
libfv		libfv is C++20 header-only network library, support TCP/SSL/Http/websocket server and client
NetIF		Cross-platform network interface addresses without name lookups in C++14.

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BitmapPlusPlus		Simple and Fast header only Bitmap (BMP) library.
CImg		Cool Image, one file: full featured image processing.
color-util		Colors, Color space converters for RGB, HSL, XYZ, Lab, etc.
color		Color manipulation/conversion for different types and formats.
nanopm		NanoPM, single header only PatchMatch.
noise2d		2D Noise generation for C++17 and later.

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jni.hpp		A modern, type-safe, C++14 wrapper for JNI.
pybind11		Seamless operability between C++11 and Python.
Selene		Simple C++11 friendly bindings to Lua.
Sol		Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance.
v8pp		Bind C++ functions and classes into V8 JavaScript engine.

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Command Interpreter		Add a command interpreter (eg., REPL) to any C++ program.

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easyloggingpp		Single header C++ logging library.
plog		Portable, simple and extensible C++ logging library.
spdlog		Fast C++ logging library.

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amgcl		Solve large sparse linear systems with algebraic multigrid method.
dj_fft		FFT library.
eigen		Template library for linear algebra.
exprtk		C++ Mathematical Expression Toolkit.
fpm		Fixed-point math library.
kfr		Fast DSP framework, FFT, Sample Rate Conversion, etc.
libmorton		Methods to efficiently encode/decode Morton codes in/from 2D/3D coordinates.
linalg		Short vector math library for C++.
matplotlib-cpp		C++ plotting library built on the popular matplotlib.
mathplot		Data visualization for simulations (C++20).
matrix		A 2D matrix lib in C++20.
NumCpp		C++ implementation of the Python Numpy library.
random		Random for modern C++ with convenient API.
spectra		A header-only C++ library for large scale eigenvalue problems.
universal		Universal Number Arithmetic.

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ugc		Incremental garbage collector.

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FakeIt		C++ mocking made easy.
trompeloeil		C++14 mocking framework.

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asio		Asio C++ Library.
asio-grpc		Asynchronous gRPC with Asio/unified executors.
brynet		Cross-platform C++ TCP network library.
cppzmq		Header-only C++ binding for libzmq.
nygma		Network packet processing and indexing.
uvw		libuv wrapper in modern C++.

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ensmallen		C++ library for numerical optimization.

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lexertl14		The Modular Lexical Analyser Generator.
Matcheroni & Parseroni		C++20 libraries for doing pattern matching using Parsing Expression Grammars
parsertl14		The Modular Parser Generator.

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cpp-peglib		PEG (Parsing Expression Grammars) library.
lug		A C++17 embedded domain specific language for expressing parsers as extended PEG.
PEGTL		Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library.

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hedley		Move #ifdefs out of your code.

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better-enums		C++ compile-time enum to string, iteration.
magic_enum		Static reflection for enums.
meta		Macro-free runtime reflection system.
nameof		Nameof operator for modern C++.
refl-cpp		Compile-time reflection library.
visit_struct		A miniature library for struct-field reflection.

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compile-time regular expressions		A Compile time regular expression matcher.
SRELL		A ECMAScript (JavaScript) compatible regular expression engine.

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manif		Small library for Lie theory.

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alpaca		Serialization library written in C++17.
cereal		A C++11 library for serialization.
essentials		Transparent serialization/deserialization.
fuser		Automatic (de)serialization of C++ types to/from JSON.
YAS		A C++11 (de)serialization library with support for binary/text/json archives.
cista		simple, high-performance, zero-copy C++ serialization & reflection library.

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libsimdpp		Low-level SIMD library.
simde		Implementations of SIMD instruction sets.
tsimd		Fundamental C++ SIMD types for Intel CPUs.

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bitflags		Easily managing set of flags.
cpp-typelist		Modern typelist for C++20
expected		C++11/14/17 std::expected.
expected-lite		Expected objects in C++11 and later.
flux		A C++20 library for sequence-orientated programming.
gsl		ISO C++ Guidelines Support Library (GSL) by Microsoft.
gsl-lite		ISO C++ Guidelines Support Library (GSL).
hana		Your standard library for metaprogramming.
itlib		Standard-library-like containers and extensions.
leaf		Lightweight Error Augmentation Framework.
libunifex		Unified Executors
match(it)		A lightweight pattern-matching library for C++17 with macro-free APIs.
mp11		C++11 metaprogramming library.
NanoRange		Range-based goodness for C++17.
numeric_ranges		Numeric algorithms for C++20 Ranges.
optional		C++11/14/17 std::optional.
optional-lite		A C++17-like optional for C++98/11 and later.
range-v3		Range library for C++14/17/20.
rangesnext		Tanges features for c+23 ported to C++20.
span-lite		A C++20-like span for C++98/11 and later.
string-view-lite		A C++17-like string_view for C++98/11 and later.
uberswitch		Alternative to the C++ switch statement.
variant-lite		A C++17-like variant for C++98/11 and later.
Windows Implementation Libraries (WIL)		Readable type-safe C++ interfaces for common Windows coding patterns.

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hfsm2		High-performance hierarchical finite state machine framework.
hsm		Finite state machine library based on the boost hana.
tinyfsm		A simple C++ finite state machine library.
SMLite		State machine library for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, `VB.Net`.
cuestate		C++ template metaprogramming FSM.

Library	Stars	Description	License
histogram		Multi-dimensional generalized histograms.
kalman		Kalman Filtering Library (EKF, UKF) based on Eigen3.
stats		Statistical distribution functions.

Library	Stars	Description	License
utf-cpp		UTF-8/16/32 for Windows/Linux/MacOs.
wildcards		String matching using wildcards.

Library	Stars	Description	License
inja		A Template Engine for Modern C++.

Library	Stars	Description	License
indicators		Activity Indicators for Modern C++.
rang		A Minimal library for terminal goodies 💄✨.
termcolor		Print colored messages to the terminal.

Library	Stars	Description	License
ApprovalTests.cpp		Native ApprovalTests for C++.
Catch2		Test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD.
doctest		The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20 testing framework.
iutest		Test framework for unit-tests.
lest		Tiny framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD.
snitch		Lightweight C++20 testing framework.
ut		UT: C++20 μ(micro)/Unit Testing Framework.

Library	Stars	Description	License
cpp-unicodelib		C++17 Unicode library.
uni-algo		Unicode algorithms for C++17.

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LLNL/units		Run-time unit representation and conversion.
mpusz/units		Compile-time dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation.
nholthaus/units		Dimensional analysis and unit conversion library.
SI		Type safety and user defined literals for physical units.

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Table of Contents

Argument Parsers

Audio

Benchmarking

Communication

Compression

Concurrency

Cryptography and Security

Databases

Data Formats

Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Data Formatting and Presentation

Data Querying

Data Structures and Algorithms

Debugging

Deep Learning

Dependency Injection

Event Handling Mechanisms

File System

Functional Programming

Geometry, Graphics Processing, and Game Development

GPU

Graph

GUI

High-performance Computing

HTTP and the Web

Image Processing

Language Bindings

Language Development

Logging

Mathematics

Memory Management

Mocking

Networking

Optimization

Parsing

Parsing Expression Grammars

Portability Definitions

Reflection

Regular Expression

Robotics

Serialization

SIMD

Standard/Support Libraries

State Machine

Statistics

String Utilities

Templating Engines

Terminal Utilities

Testing Frameworks

Unicode

Units

Validation

Web Frameworks

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